Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Sime Silverman, founder-publisher of Variety, helped popularize such technical theatre talk as "wow," "panic," and "flop" but it never got far from Broadway. H. L. Mencken coined expressions like "Bible Belt," "booboisie," "Yahwah," which became part of the language of his imitative admirers but not slang. Cartoonist T. A. Dorgan ("Tad") put a little dog in his pictures who barked "balogna"; the term was not, like some of Tad's, his own. "Blessed event," "phttf and "middle-aisle" by Winchell are too conscious to be slang; "whoopee," old when he first used it, is already obsolete. "Bugs...
...late great Baseballer Christy Mathewson ("yellow streak"). In the long list from "aasvogel" to "zooming" some U. S. examples: "Speak-easy" (1889): "Yup. U.S. Variant of yep, yes" (1906); "Razz [short for Razzberry]. Disapproval expressed by hissing or booing directed against an actor or other person" (1926); "Wow. A 'great success'" (1927); "Zipper" (1925); "Vamp...
This is a hearing on a demurrer reserved for the opinion of the full bench of the Supreme Court of the Pow Wow on an agreed statement of facts...
...club tournaments. The embryonic lawyer, gets all the laughs out of the arguments which he writes into his brief, no more nor less. These interclub debates are the laboratory work of the law student, and are carried on in high seriousness. A brief recently submitted by the famous Pow Wow Club, of which the following account is only the first page of ten, is studded with references to 38 bone fide cases in massive Langdell tomes...
...SUPREME COURT OF THE POW WOW LAW CLUB...